Improvement in shoes



t'ntd tate @stent @jitter-g Letters Patent No. 19,407, dated November 242, 1870.

IMPRVEMENT IN SHOES.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the lame.

To all persons to whom ,thesepresonrs may como:

' Be ,it known that I, FRAN-ors Gunner, of Newburyport, of the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have invented anew and useful Improvement in Shoes; and do hereby declare'tthe `same to be fully described in the following specilication and represented in the accompanying drawing, of which- Figure 1 is a top View, and

Figure 2 a side elevation of acroquet slipper 01' shoe as made or provided with my invention.

-In carrying out my invention I form or construct the ankle-tie of the` shoe elastic, or with an elastic baud or piece of webbing fixed ltherein and making part thereof; and furthermore, I combine with such adjusting to the leg.

1t saves the necessity of strings, clasps, buckles, or

buttons for holding the parts of the tie together, insures a good tit of the tie to the ankle, and enables it to be worn with more comfort than would be the case were the tie inelastic.

In the drawing- A denotes the shoe, and

B B, the two straps of the ankle-tie, they being formed 8f the leather or material of the vamp.

'lhey are connected at their ends by the elastic web C, provided with the covering-rosette or bow D, applied to such at its middle, the Whole being as represented.

Iclaim as a new or improved manufacture, and my invention- A shoe, having an elastic ankle-tie made as described, and a covering-rosette or bow `applied to the rmiddle of the elastic part of the tie, all as set forth.

FRANCIS GURNEY. VWitnesses R. H. EDDY,` S. N. PIPER. 

